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Perceived Social Support, Caregiving Appraisal and Quality of Life among Caregivers of Individuals with Parkinson Disease

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posted on 2022-06-15, 06:24 authored by Fatimah Sham, Yuslina Yusoff, Norhasni Falina Hassan Shukri, Meg MorrisMeg Morris
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder, no cure and progressive disease worsens gradually. The caregivers' QOL, support, and caregiving appraisal is essential to ensure the quality of life to the Individuals with Parkinson's disease (IWPD). Hundred three caregivers of IWPD involve in this study. The caregivers' QOL was significantly associated with the caregivers’s comorbidities, duration of caregiving, living arrangement, the IWPD's gender and comorbidities, and found significant correlate with the caregiving appraisal. The importance of identifying the risk factors, education needs, and caregiving appraisal in developing intervention program to improve their QOL among caregivers. Keywords: social support; caregiving appraisal; quality of life; Parkinson's disease. eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7i19.3132

History

Publication Date

2022-03-31

Proceedings

Environmental-Behaviour Proceedings Journal

Editors

Abbas MY

Publisher

e-International Publishing House

Place of publication

Sheffield

Volume

7

Issue

19

Pagination

9p.

ISSN

2398-4287

Name of conference

10th AMER International Conference on Quality of Life (AicQoL)

Location

Batu Ferringhi, MALAYSIA

Starting Date

2022-03-16

Finshing Date

2022-03-17

Rights Statement

© 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).